Towards a materialist theology, or, why atheists (and Marxists) should write theology

Title: Towards a materialist theology, or, why atheists (and Marxists) should write theology
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Reasonable Perspectives on Religion p. 175-202
Relation: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739141892
Publisher: Lexington Books
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
Description: My argument is as follows: atheists should write theology, for they are uniquely placed although not always willing to do so, and a Marxist-inspired approach is one of the better ways to go about the task. As my argument unfolds I shall touch base with the arguments' of the so-called New Atheists largely to show how they have missed the mark, and the "death of God" or "after God" positions - of Thomas J. J. Altizer and Mark C. Taylor, again, to indicate their shortcomings and as a lead-up to a more profound Marxist inspired approach. What I propose in the final and longest section on Marxism and theology should really be read as prolegomena, a groundwork for promising lines of thought concerning context, explanation, ambivalence, fetishes and secularism.
Subject: atheists; materialist theology; Marxism; New Atheists
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932307
Identifier: uon:11309
Identifier: ISBN:9780739141892
Language: eng

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